The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-10-15
Types Of aDeTiCal Beauty
BY VIM. HOSEA BALLoU.

Beauty has no sectional habitat on this continent it is not confined to the creole quarters of New Orleans, nor the blue grass region of Kentucky, nor the aristocratic residences of New York, nor the mountains of Virginia, the heights of Quebec, the sunny slopes of the Pacific. It is universal in Amer ica. Every town and city has one or more local belles who compare well with those of any other locality.
 While types of beauty exist every where in the land, and are so agreed bly, varied as to form picturesque whole to the admiring eye, it is true that, if they are examined by sections, there are differentiations which at- tract immediate attention. Every na- tion of Europe has type of beauty peculiar to it, a type so stable and per- manent that if Helen of Troy were to return to the shores of the Egean sea, her prototype, perhaps her nlter ego, would be found on the sands awaiting her return. The English maid is the same creation of climatic conditions that began to adorn the great isle soon after William the Conquerer injected new blood. The Swedish nightin- gale, Christine Nilsson, is the same type of sunny haired loveliness that existed in the north when the hordes of Alaric, the Goth, swept over the known world. The dark-eyed, black haired girl of Spain to-day is the same type as she who vied in the welcome to Columbus on his return from the conquest of a new and unknown country.
 Not so in the western hemisphere there is no single and conspicuous type of beauty in America; nothing so variable and capricious in all of our institutions as the American girl nothing to compare in all countries with our own immaculate types no product of time, soil and climate so beautiful, no form so perfect, no face, eyes and hair so marvellous, no brain so cultured and active, no feminine being so poetic as dwells in our midst. The origin, differentiation and devel- opment of American types then form a study at once interesting, bewitching and philosophic, in which the theory of natural selection and survival en- ter to considerable extent. First let us examine these types as they exist in high society.
 The New York girl inspires first consideration, not because she ranks first-and I will not undertake to es- tablish the rank of types-but because she stands, like the Bartholdi statue at the gates of the nation to welcome the foreigner. She walks perfectly erect and straight, her head thrown back, her chin thrust out at an angle Her form is superb she has round plump cheeks and clear eyes; she is usually brunette. She is creature of the most advanced customs; she adopts the identical style on the iden- tical day with the Parisian maid. She dimes heavily, drinks wines at all meals, smokes cigars and rev'ls at al times in the effects of the most ad. vanced usages. During the seasor she nightly attends her dozen fetes including one or more operas, dinners theatres, balls and receptions, ending each exciting night, if possible, witt a fine collation. at Delmonico's. My quiet reader will be mortified and say the New York girl is fast. reply look at her calmly, study her leni ently and sec whether or not she be. comes good wife, rears healthy chil. dren, has as much heart and feminin, loveliness as your so-called saintly characters, and devotes as much tt charity. affirm that among New York girls there are as many divorcees unfaithful vows, physical wrecks ani adorable women approximately a anywhere else, no more and no less but the subject queens of this articl need no defense, only description. Tn New York girl, whatever her dissi pations, if so harsh term may b used, rides her horse, drives in tn park, sleeps sufficiently long, and b, good care of herself overcomes mos of the effects of an advanced life. He intellectual qualifications arc as ad vanced as her habits. Her brillian conversation is on the latest best novel the latest best play, the latest gran' opera, yes, if you will, the latest fas horse, and che knows thorough, what Is the latest and freshest abou which to converse. She often firt desperately with her it Is as innocen